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ταχυεργία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: ταχυεργία

Structure: ταχυεργι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Etym.: from taxuergo/s

Sense

  1. quickness in working

Declension

First declension
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ταχυεργία ταχυεργίᾱ ταχυεργίαι
Genitive ταχυεργίᾱς ταχυεργίαιν ταχυεργιῶν
Dative ταχυεργίᾱͅ ταχυεργίαιν ταχυεργίαις
Accusative ταχυεργίᾱν ταχυεργίᾱ ταχυεργίᾱς
Vocative ταχυεργίᾱ ταχυεργίᾱ ταχυεργίαι

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • καὶ ἡ πόλισ αὐτὸν ἐπιφανῶσ ἐξεδέχετο μετὰ δόξησ ἀοιδίμου τε καὶ παραλόγου διά τε νεότητα καὶ ταχυεργίαν καὶ μέγεθοσ εὐπραξίασ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 7 4:5)
  • Γιγνομένων δ’ ἔτι τούτων ὁ Ἀννίβασ ἄκων ἐσ Καρχηδόνα ἔπλει, τὴν ἐσ τοὺσ ἄρχοντασ ἀπιστίαν τοῦ δήμου καὶ ταχυεργίαν ὑφορώμενοσ. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 6 3:1)
  • οὕτω καὶ Σαρδοῦσ ἀφῃρέθητε διὰ τὴν θάλασσαν, ἣ πέφυκε πείθειν ἅπαντασ ἀεὶ τοῦ πλέονοσ ὀρέγεσθαι διὰ τὴν ἐν αὐτῇ ταχυεργίαν. (Appian, The Foreign Wars, chapter 12 7:10)
  • ὅθεν αὐτὸν καὶ οἱ Κελτίβηρεσ διὰ τὴν ταχυεργίαν ἐκάλουν Ἀννίβαν, ὃν θρασύτατόν τε καὶ ἀπατηλότατον στρατηγὸν παρὰ σφίσιν ἐδόκουν γενέσθαι. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 1, chapter 13 6:8)
  • ἀντὶ γὰρ πάντων ἡγοῦμαί μοι συνοίσειν τὴν ταχυεργίαν. (Appian, The Civil Wars, book 2, chapter 8 5:2)

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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